Rjack wrote:
"...For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly doesn't feel that way..." http://www.tbradford.org/2008/09/kinder-gentler-free-software-license.html
That is because the author misunderstands the purpose of the license. It is not about freedom for programmers. They are in fact very much restricted by the GPL from doing what they want. The license is about freedom for users of software, so that anyone who receives a program may run it, read it, change it, and share it. It's very easy for this confusion to occur, because it's the programmers who encounter the GPL and have to deal with its terms. The users who are the beneficiaries of its freedoms will rarely even have heard of it. Think of it this way - automotive engineers have to live in a world of forced safety standards which limit how they design cars. Car buyers generally have no idea what these standards are or how they're applied, but the consequence of their existence is that cars are safer. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
